From fire to light: rereading the Manusmriti

Sharma, Arvind

The author argues that the present understanding of the Manusmriti--regarded as a text designed by the higher castes, especially brahmanas, to oppress the lower castes and women--only tells one side of the story. As he demonstrates, this perception, when examined against textual, commentarial and historical evidence, is limited to the point of being misleading (and sometimes downright wrong). P...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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